Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-30
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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49, oFhAS
Of the Cherokeean, thedignity of q capital Get.
ter-*'goldie'' 1t puts It.
b. K. Linehan says he will be one Of ten
mer to put $500 into the experiment OF bor-
ing for natural gas Ia Dubu&ue .
1t Is rumored that Lyons milk mrn are
sbout to form q combination and rs.se the
price OF milk to z or 5 cento q quart.
B. M. Leonard, OF Iowa, stands fifteenth
on the merit roll Of the naval cadets at An
rspolis. The class numbers thirtp-one.
The Ottumwa Development company re.
quests written Propositions for the location
OF the proposed gas well from owners Of real
estate.
The mlinc!. Central imports Griclx from
Dubuque for it's own use at Fort Dodge, not
being satisfied with TIE quality Of the local
| article.
The two-year old child OF T. y. Merchant,
OF Aurelia, upset a dish OF concentrated I've
upon Itself on the l4th and was frightfully
burned.
Fort Dodge IS expecting that a boot and
shoe factory, to employ twenty to thirty
men, will sooD be established there. a bonus
of S., 1000 is asked.
There are 2t2 inmates Of the Soldiers OR
phans' home at DsvenpOrt-sCO males and
1872 females. All bat thirty.six OF this number
were born In Iowa.
a Boone county preacher kicks because a
paper there publishes T~almage's sermon
each week, claiming that they dissatisfy the
congregation with his sermons.
Rev. Father Mex, pastor of the Catholic
church at Fort Madison for fifteen years, died
on the l4th OF apoplexy. He was ffty-sered
years Of age and a native OF Germany.
The wife of Stephen Palmer, of Waterloo.
committed suicide on the 14th by shoottog
herself through the body with a single hsr.
relied shot gun. She was sixty.fve years Of
age. Poor health the cause.
T. severe hail and wiEdstorm passeo tbreue,h
tne northern part faowesheik coanty Mon
day, destroying ell uncut small grain, strip
ping corn and leveling barns. The width OF
the storm was about a mile.
Aiat Linquist and Miss Sophia sBinkman re- |
Gently ran away from Keokuk and were mar
ried In Monmouth, III. The girl vas brought
back tciheokuk by "a brother, and Is now on
a st. faul trip with her mother.
The grand lodge of colored Masons 4, seo
sion at Des Moines, elected the following
omcers sor the er suing year: G.. NJ, Geo. s
Cieggett, Des Moines; d.. GO. NJ, John Sims,
oscaloossi secretary, j. II. Glllehm, L okuk.
hampton Is little stirred up by reason OF
inc charges OF a clergyman OF that Mace
against the local newspaper, charging fl
viii favoritism toward horse races. base
ball, etc, to the exclusion Of the churches ~
Coo.
The Iowa Hospital for the Insane at Tode.
pendence, at toe date OF the last monthly 20
port, contained "5l inmates-44 males and
3f' females. OF this number 100 are natives
OF Iowa, 81 Of OTHER states and 34I of foreig,
sunday night at the opera house at Keo-
kuK' prof. Cunning In delivering a lecture
lei upon the stage before his audience IN q
ieau iaint, overcome by the heat. Medical
I'D was summoned and he returned 10 con. ,
ciousness.
Iowa, says the Des Moines Leader. has iust ,
oeel'eu an honor In an educational way. DIR. q
: l.. fickard has been elected president Of r
ne national council OF education, which has
ust mad a meeting In Chicago. The honor Is T
yell bestowed. :
harvey harbln, OF Abingdon, was bound r
yer AT FAIRFIELD to answer before the federal
.ran@ jury, charged with obstructinv ,bo 1,
Jnited States mail by refusing to let the mail o
hsVe three horses with which the a
lail has been carried.
An Algona special says: OF old tho, w.r, ~
own into Egypt for corn. This year ~ceptra, :,
o"a VIII have to draw on northwestern IT,, "
grass Here there is an abundance on tbe >
'rsin neids aud the cattle are GO fat as t,e
eopie Of Kossuth county are bannv
Inc state librarian, Mrs. s. 7. M.rvou b.. ~
us'saea aer annual report. The library n,
IA an improved condition. There have been 80
goo Addltiohs and 1,577 donations or ex.
anses during the past year, making a tot., -:
~ IN Inc library Of 81 ,0l6 volum,.' va
Inc Sorwegians of Wasbtputo, at
II DecorAh, have erected $3.50 monuma" an
memory OF the old settlers buri.r r. an TAI I
az unused c~ehletery In their no,c,hs-
-, Inc cemetery has not been nee, o. ooi
y many years, the last burial bo,nut -
- anu IL had fallen into decay and 49,, 70
n. ano desola- no!
''a~eu traveller arrived at Davenno-t O.. A
on " Miiwaukee train. He would M. Me-
. except to say that he had been rohhas cou
was wen dressed, wore a silk hat 80. cou
''e,naniy appearing, and carried ing
: nan OF muslin. At last a t,cke, 80 81
49,, was round In his clothes, ard be wo. om'
'nither. He was about s,v.var 'As SAID
&c. 1H'e years Ono
'4ue herald, 10; An old farmer save Tame
"a'ched the chinch bug pest tora In
oi years and ands that the old s,nna kea'
and hay stacks are the Mac s,ooe mou
,teea' II farmers would use the s,ra hose
'sa hay for fertilizers they would thns body
ne germs and Improve the land T,m Or
use the old straw and dav IN -, n was
'n'u'd burn IT aud thus destroy III. in sted
guar
liam White fell from the tb. mir, sssis
Oh a hotel at Davenpcr Monde A,
intoxicated, says the Democr.,.r. sts.n
:. s'tung on the window sill TO- teste
ie.a as'ee' and tuubled out, striking or hulp,
'ued one story higs. but VA, on,- the q
~ TOT TOUR days In SUGGESTION coole
from Q third story vtndow I.~on